Messianic Character of American Education by Lance Seppi

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The following are some of Lance's notes from which he referred to as he spoke. These are not updated since Lance's sermon.

90% of professing Christians send their children to public school.

Between 70-88% of Christian students leave the faith their freshman year in college.

And they have nothing to do with spiritual things after their freshman year. 

From K- 12 children spend 14,000 seat hours in school. 

Voddie Baucham says it this way.  “The answer is this, if we continue to send our children to Caesar we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans.”

Education is inherently religious.

Scripture standard Psalm 1, Deut 6.

John Lennon Quote

John Lennon's music sold 2.3 billion albums. He said we are more popular than Jesus. He even made profession of faith but then abandoned it because he did not find happiness. He said, "I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkey to men. It's absolutely irrational garbage. They set up these idols and then they knock them down. It keeps all the old professors happy at the university. It gives them something to do... everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of 'experts' who made them up in the first place." 

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Melody listening with Papa to Botkin's Father to Son-Worship, 15 Lies

Some of misleading statements and lies of present-day culture which can be refuted by Scripture:

• History is not important

• Greeks were cool and Secular democracy has always been the best kind of government

• Good civilizations had lots of schooling. Bad ones had Christianity.

• The Puritans were evil and represent the dangers of Christianity and Western civilization

• The law says you have to go to school and the smartest, richest people go to college because school credentials from the state are the measure of schooling and higher-order personhood.

• Scientific, statist social engineering is proof that man is evolving from cave/ primitive organism status to physical and social perfection.

• Pop culture is proof that freedom is license and license is good.

• There is no certainty of objective meaning which can be known. Truth is relative rather than universal and absolute. Reality is little more than one’s perspective.

• The curriculum is not religious, but neutral and secular.

• “Secular” is superior to “religious" in matters of statecraft and education.

• The state, sovereign over the family, is the only legal and the best teacher of children.

• The state has sovereign lawmaking powers, and only the state has the ability and responsibility to reform people and institutions for a better world.

• There is a proven body of knowledge at the state teacher college level that represents the one best way for all children to learn and become good citizens.

• State training and certification of teachers is mandatory for all teachers. Other teachers are inferior and/or illegal “non-experts”.

• Children want to be in school with children of the same age, and are better off in school than at home with their families.

• For their own good and the good of society, children need the socialization of the school environment as early as they can get it, preferably in pre-schools and kindergartens.

• Success in life, and approval by the state, requires attendance in state schools, and full agreement with a state curriculum.

• Because education is so important to the state’s agenda, and to the better world it is creating, a person’s value is directly connected to the amount of state education he receives. His academic credibility also depends on his state credentials and licenses.

• The world is getting worse because it’s supposed to be getting worse.

• Old-fashioned child training methods are outdated.

• For many reasons, small families are best, and kids should be on their own as soon as possible.

• The safest course for our kids’ success is to keep them as closely as possible to accepted paths of progress: school, sports, college, college degree, job, career, mortgage, pension...and whatever else is popular for today.

• The modern church, with all its diverse ministries, powerful media technologies and dynamic leaders, is quite spiritually advanced.

• The ‘kingdom of God’ is heaven, or the term might possibly refer to the Church.

• Christians don’t need to be involved in politics. It’s better if they’re not.

• The Old Testament is no longer that relevant for religious life, or any other kind of life, either.

• Full-time religious life is primarily a clergyman thing.

• Most religions are okay, and it’s politically dangerous to say Christianity is superior. Non-Christians cannot follow Christian precepts.

• A healthy caretaker government is necessary for the common good, especially if it’s scientific and secular rather than religious.

• The government could be doing a better job in education.

• It’s only fair that the rich should pay more than their fair share of taxes.

• The U.N. can solve the war-peace thing better than independent nations ever will.

Jodavid helping Regina with Tea Party Signs

The whole family played Latin Roots.

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Regina Gardening

Ready for the Apiary

It's Spring!

Otto Scott on The Invention of Adolescence

Howard Phillips called Mr. Scott

one of the greatest thinkers of the 21st century.

He was the author of

James I: Fool as King and

Robespeirre; Fool as Revolutionary.

Dad took us to Tuscon in '03 in part to meet Otto, who

Dad said would not be around much longer.

He passed on May 5, 2006.

Otto Scott and R. J. Rushdoony did many "Easy Chair" programs together.

We dug the celler listening to Scott and Rushdoony.

Both wise men, well read and experienced in the world.

Both honor the Lord, but bringing up differing perspectives to the table,

they made sweaty dirty work fun. Otto Scott with Dad, Fama, Lance

at DDP in Arizona 2003

A friend posted Otto's article this afternoon:

Adolescence is now accepted by most Americans as a strange and difficult period marked by wild swings of mood, outbursts of temper, rudeness, rebelliousness, and personality changes — all involuntary.

They would be surprised to learn that this period was unknown, unrecognized, and unseen in every previous civilization, culture, and society throughout the immensely long history of humanity. It is, even today, unknown in large areas of the inhabited world.

Read More:
http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/cross_examination/the_invention_of_adolescence.aspx

Women in America -- Alexis De Tocqueville 1835

I have often been surprised and almost frightened to see the singular skill and happy audacity with which young American women contrive to steer their thoughts and language through the traps of sprightly conversation; a philosopher would stumble at every step along the narrow path which they tread with assured facility.

Unable and unwilling to keep a girl in perpetual and complete ignorance, they are in a hurry to giver her precocious knowledge of everything. Far from hiding the world’s corruption from her, they want her to see it at once and take her own steps to avoid it. And they are more anxious to ensure her good conduct than to guard her innocence too carefully.

-- Chapter 9 Education of Girls in the United States

For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves here domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

-- Ch.12 How the American Views the Equality of the Sexes

Modest Bridal: Merging Modest with chic

from http://www.empoweredtraditionalist.com/

Joan Verdon The (Hackensack, N.J.) Record, February 9, 2009 The Orlando Sentinel

Wedding-trends experts say they are seeing a growing demand for a fashion category called “modest bride” as the number of Orthodox Jewish, conservative and evangelical Christian, and Islamic brides-to-be increases.

“I know there’s a niche here, and I’m going after it,” Continue Reading »

http://www.empoweredtraditionalist.com/2008/08/27/what-guys-love-about-modest-girls/

Racism and Slavery - a Discussion from Histroy 101

Hey I am currently attending Napa High School and I am a junior there. I am also on the football team, and this last week something very interesting came up. First of all, I am not intending to hurt anybody’s feeling if they are black. I am only saying this for the intro to my question basically. Well in Napa the ratio for white to black people is about 100:1. So on our football team, we have two black people on our team. Now 2 weeks ago, we were getting ready for our football game in the locker room. We then left to go out on the field to go stretch, and when we came back we found Darius, one of our black teammates, holding his cleats that were soaked from being in a toilet. Nobody really said anything because it could happen to anybody, but last week our other black person, named DeCory, had his cleats thrown into the toilet. This might become national according to the cop that works at the campus, and it made me wonder why God would create different races if he knew there was going to be hatred and racism and slaves? --David

David,

I believe in the Genesis account of Creation; that God created the world in six days, including one man and one woman. Because of this, I believe there is only one race, the human race. Dark skin is simply a gene concentration. If several families moved off by themselves and weren’t found by the rest of civilization for two hundred years, those people’s decedents would take on a certain appearance; they would look like a family.

In the Bible God did not take racism lightly. Remember when Moses’ sister Miriam objected to his wife Zipporah? Miriam was struck with Leprosy and had to leave the camp. Zipporah was from Ethiopia. (Ussher, Annals of the World p. 43)

As Americans, we think slavery was Black African and existed before the Civil War. But slavery has been through human history; the Hebrews were slaves in Egypt, all the ancient civilizations we are studying had slaves. In America many of the people who came from Europe came as Indentured servants, they had no money for passage so they bound themselves to work for several years for the company who brought them over.

A pastor and historian in Georgia told us this summer, that a university was studying music and found a relationship between the music of the Scotts Covenanters and the African spirituals in this country. The conclusion was that during the persecution of the Covenanters in Scotland, many had been shipped as slaves to the plantations in the Carolina’s, where they worked with African slaves and spread their faith and music.

One of the worst things this nation has ever done to any people is to institute our welfare program. In slavery, (unbiblical, though it was) at least there were people the slaves were accountable to and many loved, as the testimony of the slave narratives records.

Under welfare, the state is the new provider and master.

One of the greatest books to read about the black ‘tribe’ in this country is Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington.

~Regina

Chris Ortiz on Culture Conformity

I was radically saved during the early 80s from sheer atheism. I had long hair and played in a heavy metal band. I looked the part of the subculture of those days. Long story short, I gave it all to Christ on a chilly November evening and attended my Christian service in a Baptist church in Dallas, Texas. I looked like a freak. My hair was nearly to my stomach, teased out, and I had nothing but "rock" clothes to wear. Guess what? NOBODY in that Southern Baptist Church looked like me.

I got there early, and the first man that greeted me was an older deacon with a pot belly named Bennie Bell. He came right over to me, gave me a hearty greeting--which surprised me--and then guided me to the front pew of the sanctuary. I had planned to sit in the back, for obvious reasons. I was bombarded with Baptist blessings as nearly every person came to see this strange sight...
Folks, the power of God is in the faithful preaching of the gospel, not in hair gel and contemporary praise bands. I loved my first pastor. He was a PhD, and somewhere in his late 50s, but I hung on his every word. He looked nothing like me. Outside of Christ and His Word, we had nothing in common.
In conclusion, Driscoll and Co. could learn a great deal from leaders like Ron Paul. Here's a conservative, suit-wearing, grey-haired, wrinkled, soft-spoken politician, but he's all the rage with young people of every ilk. Dr. Paul isn't trying to conform to culture. He isn't sporting sunglasses and playing the saxophone on Late Night television. When he's not campaigning, he's in Washington taking on the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, or making his case at a freedom rally. Ron Paul lives by conviction, not conformity, and young postmoderns love him for it. http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2008/05/resistant-sectarian-reformed-folks.php